NEW Modified RSS News Feed Hack

Hack originally posted by: Xyphen - RSS News Feed Hack
Modified by: wolfstream - Modified RSS News Feed Hack

I am posting this up as a new hack because of the major changes made to how the script works. Also, I didn't want people to get confused as to which one to download since there were 3 different versions on the original post.

Xyphen released the original version, then wolfstream modified the script and corrected some errors. After that, I modified wolfstreams version to change how posts were inserted. Now the post count will increase, posts will be able to be searched, and similiar threads will work.

RSS News Feed Hack for vB 3.0.x. As long as vBulletin doesn't change the database structure much, this should be good for the next release also, and those to come.

Allows you to have a live RSS news feed (such as one from Google or CNET) in a forum. The user that posts it will basically be a bot, which *should* only be used for posting the news, but you can even make it for a regular user.

Comments are welcome! Support provided through this thread.

Latest Version:
- 1.26 - for PHP 4.3.0 & above
- 1.26a - for PHP prior to 4.3.0

vBulletin Versions:
- 3.0.0
- 3.0.1

PHP Versions:
- > 4.3.0
- < 4.3.0

Installation Overview:
- Files to edit: (2) /admincp/index.php, /includes/functions_newpost.php
- Files to upload: (4) rss.php, admincp/rss_admin.php, includes/RSS/class.RSS.php, includes/RSS/rss_update.php
- Queries to run: (4) in rss_install.php

History:
Version 1.26 (23 June 2004 - Slapyo, Natch)
- listing of bot's more intuitive (Natch)
- hopefully fixed duplicate problem (Slapyo)
- stripped html tags from title and description (Slapyo)

Version 1.25 (12 May 2004 - Slapyo)
- fix for &quot; showing up
- logs action in scheduled task log if turned on

Version 1.24 (20 April 2004 - Slapyo)
- posts now deleted with delete_thread function
- post counts updated when using delete all news

Version 1.23 (14 April 2004 - Slapyo)
- added ability to delete bots
- cleaned up includes
- fix for PHP versions prior to 4.3.0 calling html_entity_decode()

Version 1.22 (13 April 2004 - Slapyo)
- duplicate posts problem fixed
- fix for problem with ' appearing as \'

Version 1.21 (12 April 2004 - Slapyo)
- bot will not be subscribed to posts now

Version 1.2 (11 April 2004 - Slapyo)
- posts now inserted with build_new_post function

Version 1.1 (28 March 2004 - wolfstream)
- file edits taken down to 1
- cron script included

Version 1.0 (28 January 2004 - Xyphen)
- original release

Common RSS Feeds:
- Yahoo!
- CNET.com
- BBC
- Wired News
- The Register
- Ars Technica
- All Headline News

[Sooner95]

figured that out,, hehe Great hack BTw!

had a quick question..tho might have been asked in the 30 pages of this thread lol

Anyways to keep the rss posts from appearing in the new posts search/count ?

[Sooner95]

nevermind, found it

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ght=post+count

[kctalker]

I am getting duplicate posts, only one has the article, the other is blank. I am using the current version just installed tonight.

Is there any fix for this or what other information do you need from me? Thanks!

[kctalker]

Actually, it is happening to all my posts since installing this hack. Please help!

My site is http://www.kctalk.com and everything is totally jacked up now. How do I remove the changes from the db?

[Slapyo]

just follow the instructions and do them in reverse and the opposite of what they say.

[abaum]

So that rss 2.0 functions, I took over the code of rsuplido -> https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=354. However thereby <description> is not taken over. Mine rss looks in such a way:

PHP Code:

<item>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[ Souleage Site]]> 
  </title>
  <link>http://www.domain.com/index.php?id=34</link> 
  <description>
    <img src="http://cgnetworks.com/newsimages/2004_10/2004_10_26_soul70.jpg" align="left" class="left" hspace="2" vspace="0" width="70" height="70" /> 
    <![CDATA[ Text...  ]]> 
  </description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:38:00 +0000</pubDate> 
</item> 


Can help their me?

Excuses please my bad English!

Thank you Andreas

[Slapyo]

just looking at the code briefly it looks like rsuplido's code only affects the title.

so, take a look at the section of code for the description and it might be a copy/paste replacement then you just change the <title> to <description> and it might work. i'm not sure, but it might work.

[abaum]

PHP Code:

if(preg_match_all("|<description><img (.+) /><\!\[CDATA\[(.+)\]\]></description>|iUs",$itemData,$match,PREG_SET_ORDER))
            {
                $desc = $match[0][1];
                $this->CHANNELS[$channelID]['ITEMS'][$itemID]['DESCRIPTION'] = "$desc";
            } else {
                if(preg_match_all("|<description>(.+)</description>|iUs",$itemData,$match,PREG_SET_ORDER))
                {
                    $desc = $match[0][1];
                    $this->CHANNELS[$channelID]['ITEMS'][$itemID]['DESCRIPTION'] = "$desc";
                } else {
                    $this->CHANNELS[$channelID]['ITEMS'][$itemID]['DESCRIPTION'] = "";
                }
            } 


Functioned unfortunately also not. Only the title is picked out. The variable $rss_description remains empty.

Andreas

[WizardX]

Is this all compatible with new 5.0.1 release? Cause I get the following error:

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in /usr/sites/isptalk.nl/web/includes/init.php on line 517

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/sites/isptalk.nl/web/includes/sessions.php on line 270




Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /usr/sites/isptalk.nl/web/includes/init.php
Line: 517





http://www.isptalk.nl/rss_install.php

Thanks in advance.

[deepdark]

PHP Version 4.3.9
Scheduled Task Manager ONE
RSS News Feed Manager:BOT DONE

but no posts do i need to make any other change i mean where i need to define the RSS adresess?


any help please???